Possible Clues:

• Bathsheba --, central character in Thomas Hardy's 'Far from the Madding Crowd'
• Hardy's first woman, right? With peculiar need
• Bathsheba --, a character in Hardy's 'Far from the Madding Crowd'
• Hardy farmer James, always with strange need
• Bathsheba, who witnessed the fall of Troy
• Bathsheba, always with strange need
• Reading matter in Supplement (extremely informative)
• Hardy's Bathsheba